overuse
[verb oh-ver-yooz; noun oh-ver-yoos]
- to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
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- excessive use: to strain one's voice through overuse.
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Origin of overuse
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Contemporary Examples
While there are a couple of antibiotics that usually work, if they are overused they, too, may cease to be effective.
Without Education, Antibiotic Resistance Will Be Our Greatest Health CrisisRussell Saunders
December 19, 2014
Stars market themselves too aggressively for gay approval, and icon itself is an overused word.
And while Mandela was richly deserving of his Nobel Prize and earned the overused appellation "great man," he wasn't a saint.
I “embrace” my “otherness,” to spew that overused phrase of early '90s identity reclamation.
Historical Examples
And the overused "editorial we" has now passed entirely from the news article.
News WritingM. Lyle Spencer
The voice will keep, and it will be sweeter and fresher if it is not overused in childhood.
Great Singers on the Art of SingingJames Francis Cooke
His voice was sensitive to liquids, but he overused the word "glorious."
Main StreetSinclair Lewis
Also, he comes to know the full meaning of that overused and abused word—service.
How To Write Special Feature ArticlesWillard Grosvenor Bleyer
Word Origin and History for overused
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper